A livelier battlefield: • Every world has its own wildlife: herds that graze, look up and bolt when your units come close, and birds that fly their own way, land, peck and take off again. • Each world grows its own woods. They sway in the wind and shake when a shot lands nearby, and units and animals stand among the trees, half hidden behind the ones in front. • The island is now a thick block of earth and rock with an underside hanging in stone spikes. Waterfalls and lava pour off its edge into space, rocks and clouds drift around it, and see-through clouds drift over the map. Gameplay: • A smarter enemy: it defends its buildings against your capturers, focuses its fire, keeps its factories busy and remembers units that slipped into the fog. Hard now wins through better decisions, not just a bigger budget. • Combat has a little luck: every shot rolls a small bonus, and the attack preview shows the range from the worst to the best roll. • Moving and cancelling no longer reveals the map. The fog lifts once a move is committed, and walking into an ambush ends the move on the spot.